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PICKENS--THE-GEM4
OP TH ' O T I L l( PA E OF t'1C KEN
VOLUME 51-NUMBER 0 PICKENS, S. C., NOVEMBER 17, 1921 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR
PRAISES PICKENS
COUNTY SCHOOU
Mr. D. L. Lewis, state superviso
of rural schools who recently spen
a week with different' schools in Pick
ens county, has submitted to the stat
superintendent of education the fo
towing interesting report of his visi
here:
.Nov. '?, 1921.
Ilon. J. E. Swea-ringen,
Cohlmbia, 'S. C.
Dear Sir:
Belo* is given -ummary -of schot
conditions 'in Pickens County, as see
by me' during week ended Nov. 5:
On Tuesday '1 visited the Easle
Grammar and High school. Thi
school, under the supervision of J
V. McElveen, is progressing finely
On Wednesday, 'Norris school, fiv
teachers; Cateechee, four teachers
and Six-Mile Academy, ten teachers
were visited.
On Thursday, Dacusville, thre
teachers, and Maynard, a splendi
four-teacher 'building in process o
erection, were visited. 'Thursday af
ternoon was spent at the Picken
County Fair at Easley.
On Friday 'Oolenoy, a four-teache
school, and Hagood Nos. I and 2, two
teacher buildings in process of con
struction, were visited.
Saturday we attended the firs
meeting of the Pickens County Teach
ers' Association.
The country schools of Picken:
county are among the best this fa:
visited by me. '1t shows that Pick
ens county in the past has had effi
cient and capable educational leader
ship. This efficient leadership is go
ing to be continued under the preseni
county Superintendent.
The number of one-teacher schoob
in the county is reported as twelve
There are sections of Pickens coun
ty where, on account of physical con
ditions. the one-teacher school is q
necessity. It is well, however, foi
school folk to realize that the one
teacher school cannot educate th<
children; it may perhaps save a com
munity from illiteracy, but this i.
about all. One unfojtunate thing
out the one;-teacher school is, that
it makes' people think they hav<
something in the way of a schoo
when they have nothing.
Too often, the one-teacher schoo
is only a monument to the prejudice
of communities-prejudice in favoi
of one's own community, and aganisi
a neighboring community. Countr3
people everywhere must be made t<
see by cur educational leaders that
th6 one-teacher school cannot, from
its very nature, suffice for the ed
ucation of the country children. When
country people are informed as to
what is best for their children, they
are always glad to take steps to im
prove existing coniditions St att
Supt. Swearingen says, "if you in.
form the people1, then you can trusi
the people." The great task of 01ui
edlucat ional leaders is to inform th<
people as to wvhat their children neet
in the way of schools. The peoph
will respond.
Tlhe first great work, therefore, ih
treduce the number of one-teachiei
sehcols as far as practicable. Thili
will necessitate consolidation. Wher(
consolidation is attempted, it is bet
ter not to stop) with the two-teach(1
school which, while much better tham
Oh one-teacher school is still noi1
what our country chihiren must have
possible, enough territory to su pport
elevent h grade subjects. With college
try children, if they wish to ente
college, either to attend a good fou
GIr miore teac'her school riunninj
eight m' nths, or a high school.
It is wvell for two-teacher school
to be consonlidlatedl i nto four-teacht
schools for the reasonts given aborv
The fouir-fkacher school should be th
standlardl sought by every countr'
egmmunity. Of course, wh'len cor
solidlations are madec, somebodyi
going to be inconveniqe~led with in
apect to location, but the person thu
inconvenienced should reaIi ze thi
consolidation -Is a give-andl.take pre
V
cess-one must be willing to give
something in the way of convenience
as to location, in order to get some
thing much better in the way of a
school.
Pickens County, on a-count of its
,large white population,and the fact
that the population is fairly dense,
is an ideal county for consolidation
of most of its territory into schools
of at least four teachers. The en
tire county has splendid roads being
built, therefore it will be much easier
to reach the sehtols than it was
formerly.
Pickens county schould also have
I some centralized high schools. The
a ideal country school system would
- have a centralized High school within
' reach of every country boy and girl.
c This would require ' he location of
a centralized high school every ten
miles apart. The three or more dis
e tricts Maintaining such a high %chool
would maintain their present schools
, through the seventh grade, but would
co-operate in sending their higher
grades to the centralized high school.
I We are not going to give our coun
f try boys and girls the education they
- deserve until we give them the oppor
tunity to attend a high school. The
nearest approach to such a high
r school is the rural graded school of
-. four or more teachers mentioned
- above.
We must 'try to educate more ade
a quately our country boys and girls.
They are the coming men and women
who are going to save the State and
the Nation. it has been true in the
past, it is going to be true in the
future. , They are taught to work
therefore they know how to carry
responsibility. They take great in
terest in the Church, the very founda
tion of our present-day civilization.
I When these boys and girls grow up
to be strong, capable manhood and
womanho(d, with their idealsof right
derived from their Church training,
and their familiarity with hard work
and responsibility, they make our
very best citizens. The towns and
-cities are educating their boys and
girls, but the environments are such
that it is much more difficult to make
good men and women out of them.
-fThe problem of the town and city
boys and girls is a very serious one,
becoming more serious every day, and
it behooves town and city parents
I and teachers to try to find a solution
to it.
The best. place in the world to
rear boys and girls is the country.
For this reason, the country must. be
made more attractive to people. The
country people should get better fi
nancial returns for their hard work,
social conditions should be made bet
ter, which, with better financial re
turns, would be possible, with good
roads and automobiles, and the coun
try schools must be sufficiently good
to enable country boys and girls to
eniter college from~ them. This idleal
for the country is high, but it is
the idleal that Pickens county should
seek to attain.
The teaching in the schools observ
ed vlas good. Reading in the primary
gradest' has greatly improvedl durinig
the panst few years, owving to the mani
ner' in which primary readin ~g has
been stressedl by edlucators. Reading
in the inltermedliate gradles, howvever
is still very poor. It is being too
mutchl neglected'( ir, (irderl I) teach~
other less5 important suibjects. Owing
to this neglect of reading, pupipus in
the inftermed(liate gradels Iind t heiri
sc hool wo'(rk harid on acc'ountii of not be
iiihr able to get the thought from t heir
lesss. become dIiscou raged, and drop
(but (of school. Jlust as much stress
shoulId be placed on reading in t he
rintermiiediaite grades as in the primary
I girades.
S S.ell ing should be both oral and
wr itten. t he oral for ext ensive w'ork,
:in odr to acquire a vecabulary, the
I, wr iftten for inuteni)ve workt. All1 writ
- ten work above the fourith grade
r shoul b dlone wvith pen and ink.
r Not slielent(1) stress is laid on wvrit..
ten anlss naithmetic, Pupils
should write the analysis so as to
S show that. t hey undlerstandl every stell
r of a prolem.
.Some teachers are't very car'eless as
e to theo spokenl and writ ten English of
y their pupils. This is inexcusable.
- fEven worse is t he very (carelesus habit
.of teachers themselves in their use
-of English before their pupils.
a Teachers hav'e been heard to use th(
.t past participl for the pat tense, 01
vie vera. Use god rEnlsa na
I[ROLIN[URMA
Deer Pedro: Well I seen another
one of them football games. What I
mean is I shure 'nuff got to see- this
one. 1 didnt have to stand up this
time and have peepul steppin 0n my
corn and when I hollered they (thought
1 was hollerin about the game when
I wasnt thinkin about no game but
how bad my corn hurt. I got to set
down thanks to Mr. A. D. L. Etc.
Barksdale who sent rile a ticket if
I wood keep my mouth shut and not
write no more offishul football dope
but I am goin to compermize with
him and write this and agree to quit
witch will make it agree bull to
everbody but I have .to thank Mr.
B for one of the most delishus P. Ms.
since Milwaukee seized to be famous
for it was quite sum game as us
sportin writers sometimes nonchantly
remarks. You know it was the
Gamecoks and the Purpul hurrican
what was playin for the football
champyun ship of the grand old
palmetter state what reaches from
the sun kist peaks of Pickens to the
sea swept shores of Charleston and
from the turbulent Savannah to the
Ncrth Carolina line and I wanted to
be newtrul but as the Lord spews
them kind outen his mouth I decided
to cone out on the Lords side and
holler for the hurrican but it looked
to me like they was also some very
good pepul hollerin for the Gamecok
boys and they shore did give me the
dickens goin over and made me look
like a boob witch I know you will say
it wasnt hard to (lo but con in back
they aint said nuthin yet and I didnt
say nuthin neether con in back caus
it was they car and it woodnt been
polite for me to disturb them and be
sids they was four of .them and just
one of me and they looked like Mag
gie when Jigs is around. Them boys
said the gamecoks would raise more
wind flappin they- winga than the
pu l.ul zefer wood and the purpul
boys was just little old babtist
preachers what coo(nt do nuthin but
pray and sing but I dont think these
gamecok boys like the tunes they
sing. Well Pedro the reason these
birds is such good proffits is cause
im gin to be the next ling of Eng
land. What relly did happen was
that hurrican blowed the gamecok
feathers wrong side out and made it
look like a frizzul chicken and the
breeze give sum of the boys new
mlona111 a11(1 took away they new money
if all reports is true witch I have
no doubt they is. I thought I know
ed sumthin about this here football
business as I is seen two games be
fore including the battle of the cen
tury between the hur rican and tigers!
but I reckin I dont as 11 simpathisers
has told me how the gamecok lost
and they all told me (Ii ffrunt so if
they is 19i ways to lose .that game it
is too1 complykatedI for me and I have
sent ini my rezine as5 sportin edl to
the paper but .iust between me and
you I think I km(.w why they lost
but I ainit a goin toi say' cause sum of
insist oii your pupils' using.' good Eng
lishi.
Tloo n'any teachers?1 do( not prepare
heir lessons before hand, in order
to st udy the best methodsh oft pre
sentIing the lessons to thle pupils.
ThIis a tso is inexcusable.
.\ost te(ache(rs do not ex pec(t and
requoire enough wvork of the plupilIs.
As a i'esuilt, the teachers Iry to do(
w~hat little is done. t he Pu pilIs arie
lazy and bad, and learn nothing.
They should( be kept so busy that'
they will not have time to be hadl.
The educational situation ini Pick
('ns is mlost encouiraging. Al uch ex
('ellent worik has been done*, much re'
mains~ to be (lone.
The process is Ii ne upoii line, pie-,
there a little. Pickens is one of the
ixieatI whiteo counties, withI as goodl
pleople as can be fouri~d in Ameria,
progressive, v'ery religious, tiiueduca.
tedl but eager' to learn and to do W~hat
is best for their c~h ild(ren. It enni he
c'onid~(ently predlicted that Pickens
('ounity uinderi the educational le'ader
ship it has had and now has, is go-'
ing to make wonderful progress.
j GINNERIS RlEPORT'
T1'here were I17,:350 bales of (cotton
ginnled in Pickens county up to Nov
ember I this year, as compared with:
9,82l hales ginned at the same (late
lnst yner
I FOOTBALL GAME]
these roosters mite jump on me 'ind
I aint no purpul hurrican. Well
Pedro' I- injoyed the game anynriow
and when one little feller made a good
play I hollered a little and a nuther
distingwished lookin gent what was
settin by me said that was Waters
the hurrican full bak and I says huh
and he says Waters full bak. Well
I didnt say nuthin but ii seemed sor
ter quare f.r a feller name Waters
to be that way but I want to say for
the boy that he looked as sober as
any of them to me and a feller name
Snipes made a bad play for the game
coks and while I cant say I like to
see anybody make a bad play if they
has to be made Im glad Snipes made
it cause I stayed out all night one
time tryin to ketch sum of them
Snipes birds in a sack and I aint
caught none yet. Well Pedro as you
is interested in cows you mite like to
know that the feller that tells the
purpul hurrican how to do it is name
Laval the guy what makes de Laval
cream sepperaters and when he got
is all sepperated he called the cream
the purpul hurrican and they aint no
team around here what can skim it.
And Pedro after the game was over
they was a lot of noise bein made all
around and so many folks I got lost
from the ones I come over with but
I lissened some and heard a big
quietness over on one side and when
I went over there shure nuff it was
them and they was ready to go in
fak they was anxius to go and they
woodnt even stop ip town and let me
get me a hot. dog they neednt think
cause they didnt have no appetite
I wasnt hungry but I didnt say
nuthin as I remembered readin sum
where that the creek is the better
part of the valley so we cum on
home with great gobs of gloom fil
lin the atmosfear where we jurneyed.
But Pedro mi tellin you honest now
Gamecoks aint no bad name for that
football team and you have heard
of teams bein beat but not disgraced
well thats them they got out there
and played just like sons of this
grand old Palmetter state wlat
reaches (see above) ought fto ,ltny
and dog my time if I way ;!t right
sroud of the Gamecoks and P. hu r
rican too. Well I cood do like the
well knwn babblin brook about this
here game but Pedro 1. better close
& if you find me on the st. some
night all beat up I want you to have
all these Gam'ecoks around hk're put
through the :t degree.
Yours till the hurrican quits blow
ii and the G. cok is crowing.
Pete
P. S. the score was seven 17) to 0
(nothing).
P. S. Jr., With a lhobist president
of the U. S. and a babt ist secy of
state and a babtist gov' .f old S. C.
and a baht ist football chamnpyun 1(d
say these folks is raisenell this year'.
huh?
P'ICKENS SCHOOIS TO'( GETl
L.AltG~E AMIOUNTr oF .\ONEY
('ounty Suplerintendent of' Educa
tion F. V. Clayton priesenited to th
State Supern t endlent of Educeat ion an
(estimai~te ofI the state a id he woulId
r'equest for thle schooIs' of IPickens'
'ounaty. The total requisit ion on the'
State will amount to 875.9i:!.00. This'
is the hiargest a moun t of non nv ever
roequlestedl of the State fr~ om Pic kenis
c'iot y. I ast year IPickeins cont r00 *ue
The amulout~l asked thiis year' will
abiout equal the amuoiunt of St ate tax -
es we pay, andl if we( get it hack ini
the form of aid foir the schools all
lie taxes we pay in Pickens county
will be s pent at huomie. Tlh is is in -
-Ieed encou raging and shou hi miais
(even more d1'.(eter'imi ned to puress i n to,
ifrenter 'I things for' our sc'hools anad
children i.
PIC(K ENS COUI'NTlY F.\"A IEitS TO'
G ETl $250,000
loose in P'ickens co~unty' this month
and1( next through the l'edei'al Farm
I..oani Bank. Al emibrs of the Easley
as5(ciat ion arie niow r'ece(ivinlg loans
from the bank and dur'ing this mont'h
will r'eceive about $15~0,0J00. It is
also expectedl that members of the
Pickens association will receive about
$ina non in loans durin Deem.
COUNTY 'TEACHERS INSTITUTE
He Held In Pickens Court house Nov
ember 9-11.
There will be a Teachers' Instituti
held at Pickens,.court house Decem.
ber 8th, 9th anji 10th. All the teach
ers of the county are expected to be
present and nu,eh good work will b
accomplished.
Supt. Clayton is now in communi
cation with, some of the best educate
men and women of the State with rt
gard to teaching in the institute, an
every etort, is being made tq mak
it really wortlx vhile.
It. has been stated that all th
teachers who attend the institute fo
the three days will be paid for th
days they miss out of school, but un
less they attend they will be expecte<
to teach.
It. is felt that the few days los
out of school in attendance at the in
stitute will be a greater gain in th
sch.ol work than if at actual teach
ing.
The people of Pickens have gives
their hearty endorsement and invita
tion for the institute to be hed ii
Pickens. They have p)ledged free en
tertainment for the duration of th,
institute, and are backing the pro
ject with their whole hearted support
Announcement will be made a
some future time as to the educator
who will lead the institute.
MANY NEW SCHOOl. HUILDIN(G|
IN PICKENS COUNTY.
The following is a list of the schol
houses built and being built thi
scholastic year in Pickens county:
Pleasant Grove and Town ('reek al
ready completed; Maynard which wi
be completed in a tew weeks; Hamt
ton, Twelve Mile, Ruhanah, Iagool
Holly Springs, Shady Grove, Pales
tine, \Vclf Creek. Kings, Micea. An
bier and Keowee are each havin
another room built. to better accon
m1olate the overerowd ing. Ma n
more school districts Wished to
some imlrovements this year but e
account. of insufficient funds have hay
to lpostp~one their huilding till anothe
year.
HONOl iHOILL NOlilIS GitAl)EI
S('HOOL
I" irst. (Grade--Martha Boroughs an
Thelma Garrett.
Second Grade-M lat tie Joe AleVWhoi
ter, Frances Holding, James Whiten
MAickler Whiten, Elzer .Johnston, liar
Ohd Gaines and Flora Glover.
'T'hird Grade-"urman Billingsley
('lenison Hillingsley. Rtobert .Johnson
Irene Gil.strap and l Thotas Horoughs
Fourth (;rade--( arlyle ('hIayton an 111
Sixth Grade---Add ic Leet .4llnst (ion
IIe en McIv'Vhorter and Willie (;rat
Alullinax. -
Sev'enth Grade-Alary~ ('4k, Way
mani le'4Vhorter., Iriene lKelly ani
HAl) SCiIAP'E
(5lesses. .1. A.\. Gri1ffini .le TowI ~V
('harlie E'mersn and 0141lrightI lFeley
all of Oconlee counlt y, were4 arriest ('
ly Sheriff Roark and1( l'.liceemanl N'eu
drun1k and disordeily. lIn maigis
traite's court a11ll r fined4 $2.5 4arli
firI;ed $25 add itional for I 'arrin ii
oealil(ed weap)on and1( $50f miore fm
disc5harginig firearmis upon1 the hub.
lie highway. Half ai ga!!4l (of whis
key was founid ill the car ill whliel
they were riig. Thhe car* was c01n.
fiscate(d anid each occu pant lounid ovei
to higher couri t uponi a chiarge o1
trans portinlg v h iskey. Each nadk
b)ond( ini the siimi of $200).
The men werie comlinig toward
P ickenis oni t he 1. ihierty romi14 antd ero
aited (0on(s10iderab' exc itementi by
sholoting aelong thle way as t hey 1rode
Two~ werei( arreste:d wvithleouit troub Ie
hut 1h 11'other tw ranP0 and; wVere (ebas
('d abou11t two mniles befor'e aught.
ThIie I'l ('ly (11utrtt w~ ill S ig at
Newry n'ext Saturda~ly ight and Sunl
day morning, at Faiie i(wI Protestanit
Methodist chiurc'h Sunday a fternioon
at 2 :30, and1( at Zionl Sundi~ay nlight ait
7 :00. Tlh is qluartet is comnposed of the
following singers: .John F. Lesley,
J1. M. A bercrombi', W. T. Bolding anid
Miss Nellie Redding, with S. C. A r
nold soloist antd minnist
SHORT ITEMS OF
LOCAL INTEREST
A Washington dispatch announces
thit i commission has been issued to
Rosa K. Winchester as postmaster at
Sunset.
Muny Pickens people went to the
"Keewee Trail" pageant in Greenville
last Friday and those who saw it say
- it wis fine. The crowd which witness
l ed the n'ammoth spectacle was esti
e mated at. from 15,000 to 20,000 people.
e Mrs. 'r. .1 Mauldin left Tuesday
r for Charleston to attend the state
L' convention of the D. A. R. She will
- remain in Charleston until next week
I when she will go to Batesburg to at
tend the state convention of the U.
t D. C.
Mr. Ford Cox, that wily widower.
went to( Greenville one dlay last week
and from there went to his place near
1 Hendersonville. We understand that
the Hendersonville trip was made
with most interesting and pleasant
- company.
Keowee Lodge No. 79, A. F. M.,
held a special meeting Tuesday night
at which time the second degree was
conferred upon several candidates.
Prominent. Masons from other towns
were present. andt) relreshnmelts were
served.
A large nunher of Pickens county
I people saw tihe football game between
F lurman University and University of
South Carol inn in Greenvile Satur
-i day. The game was for the football
clhifnnpionship of the state and Fur
- mant wom by a secae of 7 to 0.
Reuhen .). Stewart of the Pickens
Mill village. has a Duroe-,lersey hog
that weould take a prize at almost any
fair. It is two years ol I and hogolo
gists who have seen it estimate its
weight at from 800 to 1000 pounds.
(lo'rtainly it is an unusutl specimen
and is beingj liokled ove' by iany
Our god f'rienl Mr. Ed:1. (:astaint
gut (IotVn his trusty rifle one (lay
list (eel anmd deeided lie wtt.ed i a
few spuirre Ils. lie went out and in
I tw hou:: brl'o ught in fiftee. lig.
ui'ing that if siqui rrels lilked nuts nuts
mlust. like sqluirrels he brought ye
edit or somie, and they were awful
good.
Acco'ding to the Greenville News,
"Ilo'" Armstrong of Clemson was
the only lman in the state who scored
a touchdown against the Furman
football team in 1919. "Hoo" is at
present living in Pickens and is an
engineer on the Pickens-Brevard
highway. le was at star on the Clem
sonI ,tL'am) several years.
A tel1egraml re(ceivedl here Monday
announEIIIced( the. marrPIialge (f Miss Eva
Foreeiman i to Mr. lRichard Williami
stoin, olf Lexington, N. C. Details
(If t he marrii''iiage were' noit given iln
thle te(legramlIl Tihe' bride is anI at
tactivi daugh ter of Mr i. anid Mris.
H. I". I reemn io(f near' Pickens and
at. thle tim)e (If heri marr 'iiage' was a
st uden~t at lhessie Tift College, For
syt he, Ga:. Mr. Wiiliamst(on is ai trav..
i'Enlg nonh with headoquart ers in
I eeniv il e. Th~e Sentinel joins wi VithI
ot her i l end s ini e f feri ng congia t.uIa
Mr's. TI. J1. MaubIn was an idleal
hios tess last Saturm daiy aftern~oonl whien
t he members (If t he local chapIter's of
t he D). A. 1I. and I . I. ( wer'e de..
lightfully. enitertained in hIoor of tihe
firist b irtIhay ofl thle folrm r rani tIa--gl
tin Mis. Mauildini, dr'essed in blue
geor'gette, wr's assisted ini reCeiving
whit 'e goget e, thus I h' decoration
vieI 'It. Qunantitie .4'of white chriIy
I hie roomsI. A It erI anm in teriesting
lit ermy irograml dinig wvhich Mirs.
G;:.. IliH itt gave a few wVords of'
greOt iny ro t'(i1Ih(e 1. I). C. to the D).
A. U., thle gues('ts werle inivited1 into the~
diiiing r'o(IIn, whli('h was lovely with
color1s (If'- blue and~ wvhite. Trho table
had as5 a center'piece a lar'ge wVhite'
birthdnay entke~ with bluie candle' and
surr'oundedl by white chirysanthe
mumslli. Delicious block cream andl
IIound~ cnke wats 5Cerved. Coffee was
poured by Mrs. J. Men Brue;